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Tips on Rearranging Your Home Furniture

Tips on Rearranging Your Home Furniture

Rearranging your home furniture means you’re already working with furniture pieces that you love, but switching up the placement can give any room some new perspective.

Rearranging your home furniture is a splendid way to refresh your home interior. It could be done in a day or afternoon, and you don’t need to hire any professionals either. Just recruit your family or friends to help with some of the heavy lifting. Rearranging your home furniture means you’re already working with furniture pieces that you love, but switching up the placement can give any room some new perspective. There are a few tips you can keep in mind to make arranging or rearranging your furniture look and feel great in your home. Plus, these ideas may also be helpful if you’re moving your furniture into a new home.

Decide on The Larger Furniture First

When rearranging your home furniture, it’s best to decide on and move the larger furniture items first. There are a few reasons for this. Firstly, these large pieces of furniture are often heaviest in your collection. If you have a partner or friend helping you, you both want to get the most time-consuming and challenging part done and out of the way. If your helper has to step away, at least the items you could not have moved on your own are in place already. Also, the bigger furniture items like couches, a TV stand, or dining table take up more space than other things. You want to make sure the large furniture items have a spot so you can more easily arrange smaller furniture pieces about the room.

Consider Foot-Traffic

It’s not always about where you place something, but rather, where you should not place something. Any room arrangement should account for the people moving about the room and home. Therefore, it’s important to consider where your home’s foot traffic will go and leave a path unimpeded by your new furniture placement. 

Keep It Conversation-Friendly

Mainly a tip for sitting rooms, family rooms, and living room areas, you want to arrange seating that is conducive to easy conversation. No one should be craning their neck or raising their voice unnecessarily to hear what the other is saying when sitting down for a chat. Position chairs and sofas to face each other to some degree. This type of configuration naturally draws people together and closer to converse. Put end tables and coffee tables close by so you can rest your beverage.

Face the Focal Point

If you’re not quite sure how to rearrange your home furniture, then pick a focal point in the room and build from there. A focal point could be a fireplace, a large bookshelf, the TV, or even the view to the rest of your home or a view out the windows. If there isn’t an obvious focal point in the room, you could create one depending on where you position the TV or hang up some impressive wall art. A focal point visually anchors the room, so it could be quite intuitive to decide how to keep rearranging your home furniture after making this decision.

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